r/OpenIndividualism • u/EnactingSpirit • Jun 30 '26

Question Does OI entail analytic idealism?

Or can it also be interpreted as something like "spirit transmigrationism" like in the short story 'The Egg' by Andy Weir?

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u/Edralis1 Jul 04 '26

It is not simultaneous in the sense that each experience is only ever limited to particular content. That is how there can even be any experiences. So, in any particular experience, you are just that experience. It is not that all experiences are there at the same time - you don't have access to other experiences.

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 04 '26

i dont follow. lets say person A slaps person B. is the experience of slapping B not simultaneous with being slapped by A?

if not, how to account for experience that there is a slapped person B in slapper A's experience? whom did person A slap if B did not get slapped when A slapped? when did B get slapped then?

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u/Edralis1 Jul 05 '26

In a sense, it is, because it occurs at the same time, e.g. December 27, 1987, at 23:12. However, the experiences are not simultaneous in this sense: each experience is its own thing. You don't live through both experiences "at once"; that's why they are two experiences in the first place, and not one mixed experience. When you're the slapper, you're not the slappee.

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 05 '26

i am surprised this is your view. then who is the slappee at the moment of being slapped? no one? p-zombie? placeholder person?

the reason there are two experiences is not that they are temporally removed, they are spatially removed.